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4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts (frontiersin.org)
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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Oh man betel nuts. In the north of Vietnam they’re everywhere and folks are tweaking on them. Especially truck drivers and taxi drivers. They spit the red juice out and it’s so strong it stains the street.